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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Managment Processes. Nine Best Practices of Project Management , Software Program Managers Network (SPMN). Top Habits of Successful Project Managers. The Nine "I's" of Program Success ," College of Performance Management.

2003 54
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Understanding the Organizational Governance System as Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you a Project Manager struggling to align your project objectives efforts with your organizational objectives? In this article, we will dive deep into organizational and project governance and systems in project management. Ready to take your project management efforts to the next level?

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Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Both these drivers of risk will impact the probability of success of projects. Risk Management is Project Management for Adults. Herding Cats: Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making.

2009 28
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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. We cannot escape these two uncertainties - reducible and irreducible - and must learn how to manage in the presence of these uncertainties. Is each of these measures being met for the planned cost at the planned time? . Abstracted from [3].

2010 28
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Invoking "Laws" Without a Domain or Context

Herding Cats

Setting targets and measuring performance against that target is the basis of all closed loop control systems used to manage projects. In our domain this control system is the Risk Adjusted Earned Value Management System (EVMS). Without setting a target to measure against, we have: No baseline control.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B. Project Management Best Practices. —1C.

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Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects

Herding Cats

In a recent exchange in social media, it was clear the notion of risk and the sources of risk, the consequences or risks and managing in the presence of risk was in very unclear, when it was conjectured , we can simply slice the work into small bits and REDUCE risk. . Software Risk Management , Barry W.